Transpassibility, Affectivity and orporality: A Philosophical Sketch about the Confinement Experience from Existential Phenomenology of Henri Maldiney

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to describe, from a phenomenological approach, the experience of existential confinement. To realize this task, we will make an exegesis about the affective and bodily dimension of our experiences derived from the phenomenological description of sense through the status of porosity. In this way, we will focus our considerations on the notion of transpassibility, designed by Henri Maldiney in Penser l’homme et la folie to demonstrate how the sensitive dimension of our experience allows us to understand more precisely what it consists of the world’s absence constitutive of the confinement’s experience. At the end of this article, it also expected to establish the basis for thinking those affective and bodily confinement’s experiences usually described through the notion of psychopathology in a not deficiency way. I.e., like a kind of world’s configuration that must be described in the light of its proper specificity and not through a comparison with certain normality instituted socially.